The country moved up two places from 12th place at the end of 2016. Toyota outstripped growth in the Indian passenger vehicle market last year, registering a 9% jump with sales of 151,000 passenger vehicles, compared with the industry average of 5.5%.

In focus are cities like Bengaluru where the electric vehicle population has grown in the last couple of years. Also in focus are in-campus commercial vehicle usage as well as short-distance second car options even in cities like Delhi.

Over the next 12 months, Honda will re-launch the Accord while Toyota will bring its new Prius, company executives said, joining the race with European rivals Volkswagen and Skoda which are set to launch the new Passat and Superb.

The new incentive scheme by the government, called the FAME India which stands for Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, too has given a boost to this segment. We look at some of the cars that now qualify for incentives under the scheme

As per the suit filed, Royal Enfield has infringed Flash electronics’ patent on “Regulator Rectifier Device and Method for Regulating an Output Voltage of the Same” duly issued by the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) to Flash Electronics on February 20, 2018 after Flash’s R&D department made a breakthrough invention of the component in 2014.